That’s a Ram 1500 5.7 Hemi with a 3.92 rear end on winter gas seldom getting above 45 miles per hour in Montana in the middle of winter… Enjoy… Another reason to move here… Oh, everyone, remember to get a plug for your engine, you will need to plug your car in… But, don’t worry, in Summer you get to drive 80 mph pretty much everywhere you want to go and then I get almost 18 mpg in the truck. Oh, that’s also why I have a Jeep Renegade now as a daily driver, with heated seats, steering wheel and about 27 mpg.

The truck tows the travel trailer and goes to the transfer station. Oh, that’s right. You dump your own trash outside of the city and take it to a county “transfer station.” None of this put it in a container and roll it out to the curb stuff. But you can take anything to a transfer station, I mean anything and the stuff other people leave is like a free flea market every day… Yay… Need a bike for your kid? No problem. Free exercise equipment, no problem, lawn mowers? No problem, furniture? No problem. And it works and some of it is even half way decent.

Oh, if you have closets full of suits and ties and street shoes? Just leave em where you are if you move out here… You won’t need them. Blue jeans? Sweaters, boots? You are good to go.

Oh a realtor friend of mine makes a living selling “ranchettes” to people from other areas mostly west of here that bumps up against the ocean. He says they pay a pretty penney, move out here, three to five years later the wife has been twiddling her thumbs 20 miles from nowhere and says to the husband, I don’t care what you are going to do, I’m moving back to (pick your location). They sell the Ranchette historically at a loss, maybe not now days, but then my realtor friend puts the Ranchette back on the market and makes his llving. He says this is common. Now the Pandemic has changed attitudes so this may not be true now days, but you will be giving up a whole lot of names you presently shop at unless you are in Bozeman, Kalispell, Billings, or Missoula… You will note I didn’t say Helena or Butte and certainly nothing east of Billings. Butte is an amazing place though. Not like any other city in the US in my opinion…and that is a compliment… Very unique. Some of the most “REAL” human beings there are and a bit rough around the edges…

OK… the biggest “close” city of like a million is…drum roll…Calgary Alberta Canada. An 8 hour drive from Helena but you can drive up, stay overnight and catch a flight cheaper than from most of Montana… But that assumes Canada will even let you in… They sometimes give U.S. the hairy eyeball when crossing over, but make it up in politeness. They love to drive down here for Costco and gas.

OK, done extolling the virtues of Montana.